The division is committed to research on learning, research on methods of instruction, the dissemination of knowledge on teaching and learning, and the development of procedures and materials for instruction.

The Leadership Minor will be an elective program coupling leadership theory with practice, leading to a certificate that is recorded on a student's transcript. Guided by a faculty mentor, students will create a personal leadership development plan, take courses on leadership concepts, peer mentor younger students, and create a portfolio of their leadership experiences.

ENE's Prof. Karl Smith participated in the consensus study, Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering"—one of two experts invited to represent engineering in an initiative that also encompasses physics, biology, the geosciences, chemistry, and astronomy.

Recognized for innovation in engineering education, Oakes will receive the Chester F. Carlson Award at the American Society for Engineering Education's annual awards banquet in June.

Honored for outstanding contributions to the American Society for Engineering Education, Ohland will be inducted at ASEE's annual awards banquet in June.

Held March 30, the College of Engineering's Faculty Awards of Excellence banquet honored the ENE professor for her leadership in building and expanding the School of Engineering Education, the world's first such academic unit.

Oakes, who directs Purdue's EPICS program, will receive the organization's 2012 Brian Douglas Hiltunen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Scholarship of Engagement.

Reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes ENE professor Matt Ohland in its story "Re-Engineering Engineering Education to Retain Students."

Leslie Bottorff and Rick Kosdrosky, two graduates of Interdisciplinary Engineering (now part of ENE), will receive the school's Outstanding Alumni Award on February 22.

This book, edited by ENE professor Alice Pawley (right) with Caroline Baillie and Donna Riley, is the first dedicated specifically to university professionals concerned with engineering and social justice. Its team of multidisciplinary authors includes ENE faculty, graduate students, and staff; a subset of the book's authors came together around the topic of engineering and social justice in a workshop held at Purdue in 2009. [WBAA interview link]

This first-ever book for university professionals on engineering and social justice features ENE faculty, graduate students, and staff among its team of interdisciplinary authors.

How a student with the right stuff found the right fit in Multidisciplinary Engineering.

For her "History and Philosophy of Engineering Education" course, doctoral student Mel Chua addresses the question comic-book-style.

An ENE doctoral student, Dorie is profiled in Purdue's "5 Students Who Are Green Makers" web feature as a "sustainability steward."

NASA flight director and Interdisciplinary Engineering alum Gary Horlacher on the shuttle's last flight.